Experts called for the improvement of legislation related to artificial intelligence technology to promote the development of the AI industry and the digital economy at a forum on Saturday. Themed the Development of AI and Technology and Legal Responses, the forum was jointly hosted by the China Reform Foundation, the China Legal Exchange Foundation, and the research center for science, technology and law at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A team of Chinese and Swiss scientists has jointly developed an energy-efficient sensing-computing neuromorphic chip that mimics the neurons and synapses of the human brain. The human brain, capable of processing incredibly intricate and expansive neural networks, operates with a total power consumption of merely 20 watts, significantly lower than that of current AI systems. Therefore, neuromorphic or brain-like computing offers promising energy-saving machine intelligence.

An International Agricultural Forum was concluded in Thailand's Nan Province on Wednesday, aiming to explore the connection between biodiversity, sustainable community development and agricultural trade. Scheduled from May 27 to May 29, the forum was organized by Thailand's Rakpanan Foundation in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences Innovation Cooperation Center (Bangkok) (CASICCB) and seven other participating agencies, attracting over 600 participants in both the public and private sectors from 10 countries and regions.

Chinese experts on Wednesday called for building a more scientific and fair accounting system for carbon emissions. The experts made the call at the launch of a report on consumption-based carbon emissions held by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Chinese researchers recently discovered the primary wound signal that initiates plant regenerative responses, providing a convenient method for improving the crops' genetic transformation efficiency. A team of researchers led by Li Chuanyou from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported that their discovery the REGENERATION FACTOR1 (REF1) is the primary wound signal that initiates plant regenerative responses.

China's largest general-purpose precision survey telescope is expected to be based in Lenghu town, Northwest China's Qinghai Province, after a cooperation agreement was signed on Sunday between the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the government of the Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai.

A team of Chinese scientists has unveiled the continuous evolutionary history of rice, tracing its journey from wild to domesticated over an astounding period of 100,000 years. The findings published on Friday in the journal Science not only shed new light on the progression of human society and the origins of agricultural civilization, but also present compelling evidence that China is the birthplace of rice.

A collaborative research team from China and Ukraine has been monitoring near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) through regular observations to attain accurate positioning and precise orbit determination for those celestial bodies. The researchers from Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Mykolaiv Astronomical Observatory pioneered an innovative method known as the rotating-drift-scan (RDS) charge-coupled device (CCD) technique, which allows the asteroid to be imaged as a point source, even with a long exposure time.

China has recently released an updated version of the national species database, known as the Catalogue of Life China 2024 Annual Checklist, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said Thursday. The list recorded a total of 155,364 species and subspecies, up 6,690 from the 2023 figure.

A new joint study conducted by researchers from China, the UK, Canada, Switzerland and Germany has found that the risk of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) is increasing due to global warming. The study was published in Nature Reviews Earth &Environment on Tuesday.

Researchers from a key laboratory in northwest China have so far collected over 6,300 strains of microbial resources from various extreme environments to research their industrial applications. Liu Guangxiu, a researcher with the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that the institute's Key Laboratory of Extreme Environmental Microbial Resources and Engineering of Gansu Province houses these "treasures" collected from different extreme environments in China, including glaciers, permafrost, deserts and salt lakes, and even those carried into outer space via China's space program.

"Be part of the Plan" is the theme for this year's International Day for Biological Diversity. Science and Technology Daily reporters visited the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Yunnan province in southwestern China, where they witnessed the joint efforts of scientists from China and abroad to preserve biodiversity.